Amid all the distractions of his great office he preached as often and as fervently as he did at Antioch.

Meanwhile she told herself that she must keep away from these distractions.

I never knew a lover that would not willingly secure his interest as well as his mistress; or, if one must be abandoned, had not the prudence (among all his distractions) to consider, a woman was but a woman, and money was a thing of more real merit than the whole sex put together.

The insolence of some churchmen, and the superiority they assumed in the civil government, during the distractions of Charles I. provoked the House of Commons to take some measures to prevent their growing power, which that pious monarch was too much disposed to favour.

He was deeply immersed in the public distractions of the times, and is said to have committed many debaucheries, of which the following instance has been recorded.

She was an admirable letter-writer, and in the midst of her numerous domestic distractions always found time for the duties of correspondence.

This prude so refined, had such frequent 'distractions' with her three husbands, who were all young and vigorous, that she buried them in a very short time.

For a time I kept my love very warm and glowing; but it was not long ere the distractions you bade me seek in society proved more potent than I wished.

I bless God that in the midst of these publick distractions I have still liberty to communicate; and may this sacrament be my damnation, if my heart do not joyn with my lipps in this protestation.

] The stroller in this road suffered few distractions.

In such obscurity, therefore, variety and confused mixture of symptoms, causes, how difficult a thing is it to treat of several kinds apart; to make any certainty or distinction among so many casualties, distractions, when seldom two men shall be like effected per omnia?

Apart from the distractions which have been mentioned above, Julius's attention to the food was surprisingly constant.

James Steadman spent a good deal of his time waiting about at the docks for the earliest news of Greene's ship, the Hypermnestra; while Lady Maulevrier waited patiently in her sitting-room at the Dolphin, whose three long French windows commanded a full view of the High Street, with all those various distractions afforded by the chief thoroughfare of a provincial town.

While enjoying the benefits of amicable intercourse with foreign nations, we have not been insensible to the distractions and wars which have prevailed in other quarters of the world.

There were no distractions.

" '"If I knew all things that are in the world, and were not in charity, what would it profit me in the sight of God, who will judge according to deeds?" '"Cease from overweening desire of knowledge, because many distractions are found there, and much delusion.

He could not persuade his delicate lungspardon my seeming knowledge of anatomyto tolerate the confined air in offices, counting-houses, banks, or other haunts of persons whose want of refinement of taste impels them to the crude distractions of business-life.

On s'amuse souvent et avec raison des distractions des professeurs.

R604307. Distractions.

Hear the first cracking of the central vertebra; then the mournful, moaning whir in the air; then the tremendous crash upon the green earth; the vibration of the mighty trunk on the ground, like the writhing and tremor of an ox struck by the butcher's axe; the rebound into the air of dismembered branches; the frightened flight of leaves and dust, and all the other distractions of that hour of death and destruction.

A POULTRY FARM VI.GHOSTS VII.DAILY DISTRACTIONS VIII.THE PROSE OF NEW ENGLAND FARM LIFE IX.THE PASSING OF THE PEACOCKS X.LOOKING BACK An old farm-house with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each side.

DAILY DISTRACTIONS.

Among his distractions were his visits to France, which for some time were frequent.

And the monotony was relieved, too, by other distractions.

[Illustration] But of course there are distractions.